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October 22, 2005
Zombie Virginia Woolf/ The Lion, The Witch, & The Product Placement
Because everyone loves a list, Time magazine put out this list of 100 best novels since 1923 (Why 1923? Seriously, do you know why? Is 1923 a year of some particular importance in bookland? Or is it just an easy way out of having to make a decision one way or the other regarding Ulysses, which was published in 1922?)
My favorites include:
The Sun Also Rises (1926)Author: Ernest Hemingway
"Here's the first half of the book: 'We had dinner and a few drinks. We went to a cafe and talked and had some drinks. We ate dinner and had a few drinks. Dinner. Drinks. More dinner. More drinks. We took a cab here (or there) in Paris and had some drinks, and maybe we danced and flirted and talked sh*t about somebody. More dinner. More drinks. I love you, I hate you, maybe you should come up to my room, no you can't . . . I flipped through the second half of the book a day or two later and saw the words 'dinner' and 'drinks' on nearly every page and figured it wasn't worth the risk."
The Sound and the Fury (1929)Author: William Faulkner
"This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return."
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)Author: John Steinbeck
"While the story did have a great moral to go along with it, it was about dirt! Dirt and migrating. Dirt and migrating and more dirt."
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)Author: Thomas Pynchon
"When one contrasts Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it's like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other."
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)Author: Virginia Woolf
"The only good thing to say about this "literary" drivel is that the person responsible, Virginia Woolf, has been dead for quite some time now. Let us pray to God she stays that way."
Oh, and there's also this:
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)Author: C.S. Lewis
"I bought these books to have something nice to read to my grandkids. I had to stop, however, because the books are nothing more than advertisements for "Turkish Delight," a candy popular in the U.K. The whole point of buying books for my grandkids was to give them a break from advertising, and here (throughout) are ads for this "Turkish Delight"! How much money is this Mr. Lewis getting from the Cadbury's chocolate company anyway? This man must be laughing to the bank."
It's funny, I do remember becoming very, very interested in Turkish Delight after reading the book, though I didn't know what it was. Turkish Delight and hot coacoa, mmmm.
(via bookshelves of doom)
Posted by hissycat at October 22, 2005 06:51 PM
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that person reviewing The Sun Also Rises thought he/she was all witty and critical, but the drinks and the dinner and then some more drinks and maybe dinner and talking shit about people and drinks and dinner in paris -- that's why (ok, and maybe some other things too) this is one of my favorite books of all times.
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